Ashley Márquez, a young mother of three girls, was murdered by her boyfriend

• Ashley Márquez, a young mother of three girls, was murdered by her boyfriend in North Carolina.
• Marquez, 30, was found murdered in her home although authorities have not revealed how she died.
• June Kennard Brantley, 31, is already in custody charged with the woman’s murder.

Ashley Márquez, a young mother, was killed by her boyfriend June Kennard Brantley, with whom she was just beginning her relationship. The alleged murderer has already been arrested by agents of the Homicide Division of the Charlotte Police Department (CPD) in North Carolina.

Marquez, 30, was found murdered in her home in the western metropolitan area of Charlotte, in North Carolina, after someone called the CPD emergency number to request that some officers come to her house, as they were concerned for her well-being.

Ashley Márquez, one more case of domestic violence

The tragedy in the death of the young mother Ashley Márquez has shocked the community in Charlotte, as the girl was just beginning her relationship with June Kennard Brantley, 31, and was so happy that she even made their courtship public on her social networks .

According to the case report, sent to MundoHispánico By email, the emergency number received a call last Saturday, May 29, 2021, in which they asked the authorities to appear urgently at the house of a girl. The report does not detail who made the call, or why they were concerned about Ashley Márquez.

Ashley Márquez’s family and friends care about her

As a routine procedure, a CPD officer went to Ashley Márquez’s home at 4:00 p.m. at the house marked 3300 Biscayne Drive, in a wooded and semi-rural area east of the Charlotte metropolitan area, to confirm that the Hispanic girl was okay.

However, when knocking on the girl’s door, the agent received no response and decided to force entry to the address located in Cul De Sac (closed street), behind a small shopping center and Eastway Middle School. Upon entering the girl’s house, the officer already found her dead.

They discover the body of Ashley Márquez

The agent who made the discovery then called officers from the CPD Homicide Division to investigate Ashley Márquez’s death. The report sent by the corporation does not detail how the girl died. However, the case was classified as a homicide. The rest of that Saturday, May 29, 2021, the agents investigated the case.

Based on the investigations that the agents of the CPD’s Homicide Division carried out in Ashley Márquez’s house, the agents determined that the alleged perpetrator of the girl’s murder had been her boyfriend, the African-American June Kennard Brantley, and charged her for murder.

Ashley Márquez’s boyfriend is charged with the murder

In the arrest warrant against June Kennard Brantley, Homicide Division agents detail that he received help in the crime from a man named Ricardo Privette Jr. While Brantley was charged with first degree murder, Privette Jr. , 30 years old, was accused of assisting a murderer in the commission of the crime.

During the early hours of Sunday, May 30, 2021 June, Kennard Brantley and Ricardo Privette Jr. were arrested by agents of the CPD Homicide Division and taken to the Mecklenburg County jail, to face their criminal prosecution for the murder of Ashley. Marquez.

Why was Ashley Márquez killed?

As of this writing, the criminal records of the Mecklenburg County They do not specify when will be the first hearing of Kennard Brantley and Ricardo Privette Jr. for the murder of Ashley Márquez. For that reason, the legal documents of the crime are not yet available for public consultation, so the motive for the crime is not yet known.

According to information from the CPD’s Homicide Division, the case is still under investigation and the department asks that if anyone from the Hispanic community has more information about the crime, contact his office at 704.432.8477 with Detective Jones. . All tracks will be kept anonymous.

Ashley Márquez’s daughters are left homeless

Ashley Márquez was the mother of three young daughters, the product of a previous relationship, and for whom she was the only financial supporter. The authorities’ investigation does not detail whether Márquez’s three daughters were in the home when their mother’s murder occurred.

Iliana Jáquez, a friend of Ashley Márquez, opened the account Help Ashley Marquez’s Kids and Family (Let’s help the girls and family of Ashley Márquez) to raise funds in the social network Go Fund Me, with which her three daughters can face the first months of economic misfortune without their mother.

«Your daughters will have questions that no one will be able to answer»

«Ashley (Márquez) was murdered … now her three daughters survive her,» explains Jáquez to cry out for help for the young mother’s relatives and details that the girls «will always have questions that no one will ever be able to answer … let’s help this family at this time of necessity. She will be remembered and missed, keep her in your prayers ”asks Jáquez.

The environment of friends and relatives of the young mother Ashley Márquez, through their social networks, have expressed that perhaps the motive in the murder of the girl by her boyfriend, June Kennard Brantley, could have been motivated by a case of domestic violence.

Ashley Márquez, one more link in domestic violence

According to the nonprofit organization National Statistics on Domestic Violence (NCADV), the United States is experiencing a true pandemic of aggression, at various levels, against someone by their partner. Every minute, according to NCADV, 20 people are attacked by their partner in some way, including murder.

In the United States, one in four women and one in nine men are constantly subjected to violent abuse, causing them physical injury, emotion, trauma and anguish for the rest of their lives and even homicide. Women between 18 and 24 years old, almost always in their first serious relationship, are the most vulnerable and who report the most cases every day.

The pandemic of domestic violence

Ashley Márquez’s death allegedly at the hands of her ex-partner is within the national context of domestic violence cases. According to the non-profit organization National Domestic Violence Hotline, one in four women in the United States suffers from an abusive relationship with her partner.

According to that same organization, every minute an average of 24 people, men and women, suffer some type of violence, rape, harassment and intimidation by their partners. That makes a total of 12 million people a year being victims of domestic violence, like Márquez.

Hispanic victims can ask for help

The National Domestic Violence Hotline, which can be consulted online, has a series of recommendations in Spanish for people who suffer from partner abuse. The organization explains that there are different types of domestic violence and that the victim must learn to identify them, as in the case of Ashley Márquez, before the tragedy.

According to the National Domestic Violence Helpline, according to its information in Spanish, it explains that anyone has the right to turn off their phone in order to spend time with their family and friends without these activities having to anger their partner and no one can control someone else’s time even if they are married.

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